Weight loss the old style way part 3.

Hi all

Funny day today, started with healthy breakfast (2 slices wm toast with low fat hummus, a bowl of strawberries and blueberries).

Then I went to the Natural History Museum where they had a Nettle day, all things to do with nettles, including spinning weaving and knitting nettle fiber, nettle as medicine, and of course nettle as food.

I attended a talk about how to cook nettles and there was a tasting at the end, where I ate a lot of the tasties on offer: nettle and feta pastries, nettle fish cake, nettle tartlets, scone with nettle jam, and victoria sponge with cream and nettle jam. Not what you would call "low-calorie" but the tasties were small (except for the HUMONGOUS slice of victoria sponge!) and healthy too, by the sound of it, so no problem

For dinner I am going to do the squash and red onion lasagne that Rockie 4 inspired me with, as I got all the ingredients in, except for pesto, but I have basil, garlic and pine nuts so I shall make that myself! (Change of plan from squash and chickpea curry!)..

Meanmarie, I hope you feel better from having eaten more than you were hoping to, yesterday. Please do not feel disgusted with yourself, we all do it occasionally - look at me and nettle tasters LOL - but we all need to love ourselves and stay positive! (((HUG)))

10past6, I hope you will try the frozen grapes and like them, I never get around to do it because I love grapes so much that I eat them all at once when I buy them!

Taplady, lots of us having squash tonight, great minds think alike!

ME well done on your loss, slow but sure does it! Keep up the good work.

Rockie4 I am so envious that you can make your own curtains and blinds, today at the nettle event I saw some Nepalese fabric made of nettle and with incredibly beautiful pattern, that someone sells in the UK as a charity, and the price was £15 per metre - if you saw that fabric, it was incredible value, I bet that in a posh shop it would go over £30 per metre! If I knew how to make blinds I would have bought it there and then, as I need roman blinds for the front room and that would have been perfect!

Anyway, here I go to cook the Rockie4 Squash Lasagne, love to all

Caterina

Caterina wrote: »

10past6, I hope you will try the frozen grapes and like them, I never get around to do it because I love grapes so much that I eat them all at once when I buy them!

Hi Caterina :hello:
Oooooooooooo, I'm afraid the grapes never made it to the freezer :eek: like you, I just can't resist them, guess I'll have to purchase a double portion next week :rotfl:

lainz wrote: »

hopes for this week apart from staying the same - I have no idea how you guys eat so little - I eat like a horse (have the thighs to prove it!) but I can't eat any less or I get light headed - been tested and don't have any glucose/blood sugar probs .

I eat well too, cant cope with going long between meals as like you I get light headed(been tested too) so I tend to eat every 3 hours or so. I have to admit to feeling quite greedy when I see what some of you get by on!:D

well done to M.E :T and to Iainz:T

Caterina - sounds like you had a great day out! Hope you enjoyed the squash lasagne, sounds nice but I dont eat garlic and have never had pesto:eek: not even sure what it is:o

Good luck to those weighing in tomorrow.

IBS been playing up today for the first time in weeks (so everybodys suffering:D )- forgot to take my tablet this morning so I guess thats it.

see you all tomorrow - back to work on an early shift for me!

Evening All :wave:

Am back from sunny Wales (even managed to spend a couple of days on the beach ).

Have been soooooooooooo bad whilst we've been away. I blame my DH, dragging me into all those lovely little bakery's everywhere. I really didn't want to get on the scales this morning, I'm saving it for tomorrow . I have a feeling I've probably put back on all that I've lost and possibly even a bit more . To try to soften tomorrows blow I've been good today and even did 2 hours in the garden trimming hedges this evening.

I'll try to catch up on the posts but there's 10 pages (and that's on 40 posts a page), maybe if I get a few hours to spare .

superspam wrote: »

Hi everyone!
Considering the scientist type people say you need to consume 3500 calories LESS than normal to lose one pound in a week, that means I must have consumed 8750 kcals less in my daily diet since Wednesday - er... I don't think so:rotfl:

Well yes, but the important thing to realise is that this is an average. A pint of water weighs 1 1/4 pounds. I've always tried to weigh in on a Saturday as Friday night usually involves my share of a bottle of wine and I know that I'll weigh less if I'm slightly dehydrated! :rotfl:

Fluid retention because of TOTM can also have a huge impact. So (in my house) can uneven floorboards. Sometimes I move the scales about to get a better reading!

So go for the average. I plot a graph of my weight. Over the period of a few weeks a trend becomes apparent. That's why I don't usually post my weekly weigh-ins here - I know they fluctuate quite alarmingly. Take the average over a few weeks and the scientists will be right.

(This is also why a one day binge has little impact - so don't worry too much about the odd doughnut. A three day binge might, though - so don't have a doughnut every day.)